Borderland Infrastructures - Trade, Development, and Control in Western China (Hardcover, 0)

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland Infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Asian Borderlands
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Alessandro Rippa
Contributors:	Willem Schendel • Tina Harris
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	282
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9463725606
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Embargos & sanctions Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International trade > General
LSN:	9463725601
Barcode:	9789463725606

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